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...So wrote a German monk in the early 11th century. The medieval history of Rome did not at all strike those who lived through it as a story of decline....
...The moment when she sees a vision of Helen of Troy, here a sad, mute beauty, becomes charged with sorrow....
...He cites the bhikshapatra stacking bowls carried by Jain monks, a version of which he designed for Anantaya (Rs12,450/$190), working with artisans in Rajasthan whose ancestors have been using this woodturning...
...The motives of these warrior monks were “complicated”, Festing admits. “Some were on a religious high, others were simply short of land.”...
...Regular bass guitarist Nick Cook played a steady but over-restricted holding role, and Jason Robello and Troy Miller fleshed out textures and beats on keyboards and drums....
...The last generation of monks left Sümela in 1923 after an occupation that may have lasted 1,400 years....
...He has also since written books on Turner, Troy, the Thames and Newton....
...In “The Sorrow of Love” and “No Second Troy”, he extravagantly compared her to Helen of Troy, as if a terrible, god-given beauty could not help but lead to the destruction of an entire city....
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